Italian League Prediction Thread (Serie A)

[Chilwell]

Bologna vs Parma

Bologna (confirmed lineup): Federico Ravaglia, Emil Holm, Sam Beukema, Martin Erlic, Charalambos Lykogiannis, Michel Aebischer, Remo Freuler, Nikola Moro, Riccardo Orsolini, Santiago Castro, Dan Ndoye.

Parma (confirmed lineup): Zion Suzuki, Enrico Del Prato, Botond Balogh, Emanuele Valeri, Woyo Coulibaly, Simon Sohm, Adrian Bernabe, Dennis Man, Hernani, Matteo Cancellieri, Ange-Yoan Bonny.

Bologna are hosting Parma for their seventh game of the season where Bologna have just lost only one and one win and secured four draw which makes them fit than Parma that have lost three games and secured a win and two draw.

Lazio vs Empoli
Lazio (confirmed lineup): Ivan Provedel, Manuel Lazzari, Mario Gila, Alessio Romagnoli, Nuno Tavares, Matteo Guendouzi, Nicolo Rovella, Gustav Isaksen, Boulaye Dia, Mattia Zaccagni, Valentin Castellanos.

Empoli (confirmed lineup): Devis Vasquez, Saba Goglichidze, Ardian Ismajli, Mattia Viti, Emmanuel Quartsin Gyasi, Tino Anjorin, Alberto Grassi, Jacopo Fazzini, Giuseppe Pezzella, Sebastiano Esposito, Ola Solbakken.

Empoli haven't lost any match this season and they will be facing the Lazio for their seventh match, the both teams have equal points, this alone show that this march will be tough because who win today takes the lead,

[bering]

Now Inter Milan with this win, have only 2 points less than Napoli and temporarily hold the second position. There is one underdog in top four of Serie A, Udinese with 13 points but the third position of Udinese will be taken over by Juventus and AC Milan if these teams win their matches this weekend. It seems gradually biggest clubs in Serie A starting to claim highest positions back.

I was surprised to see how pretty good Udinese started the league to the point that they were topping the table few weeks back, but as the league is getting matured it looks like they are dropping form, and they don't have that high morale anymore. Inter 3-1 victory yesterday uplifted them to second position on the table, they might be pushed down if Juventus win Cagliari.

Juventus is winning but one goal at 84 minutes  and the goal was scored in first through penalty by Duhan Vlohovi. I will not say that this is a motivating result because I expected them to win nicely and not just through penalty. They are playing home and are obviously the favorite against Cagliari so it was expected that they win them decisively because they have to keep focus on winning as many matches as possible if they want to turn their current situation around as they are almost becoming an average team in the Seria A.

While typing, Cagliari has just equalized the goal and that is not looking too good for Juventus. They will have to maintain their fourth position and if AC Milan wins their match, they will be displaced to 5th position.

Juventus was unable to scores more and the final result is 1-1 and after through an 6 matches with cleansheet records finally Juventus have to conceded goal from this match and this is really unexpected result considering this is home match for Juventus and Cagliari status also as weak team so i didn't expect Cagliari can stole point from Juventus and this is not good because this result is make Juventus unable to taking over second place from Inter Milan and indeed if AC Milan can win from Fiorentina today then Juventus position will be dropped at 4th place and although Juventus is still unbeated in all competitions but i can't says their performance is quite impressive because this is their 4th draws from 7 latest matches in Serie A so Juventus still have a problem with their consistency

[panjul07]

Juventus is winning but one goal at 84 minutes  and the goal was scored in first through penalty by Duhan Vlohovi. I will not say that this is a motivating result because I expected them to win nicely and not just through penalty. They are playing home and are obviously the favorite against Cagliari so it was expected that they win them decisively because they have to keep focus on winning as many matches as possible if they want to turn their current situation around as they are almost becoming an average team in the Seria A.

While typing, Cagliari has just equalized the goal and that is not looking too good for Juventus. They will have to maintain their fourth position and if AC Milan wins their match, they will be displaced to 5th position.

Unexpected result, I thought Juventus can beat Cagliari easily but in fact they could score a goal by penalty only and at the end they have to accept the fact that they get 1 point only.
Juventus played really well when they defeated Leipzig in the UCL but they cant do the same performance against Cagliari even they played in front of their own fans.
This is also first conceded goal for Juventus after 6 matches with cleansheet, well done for Cagliari
By the way, if Milan wins their match, I dont think Juventus will be on 5th because I think they are statitiscally better than Udinese which has the same point as them (13).

[coinlocket$]

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Lazio vs Empoli
Lazio (confirmed lineup): Ivan Provedel, Manuel Lazzari, Mario Gila, Alessio Romagnoli, Nuno Tavares, Matteo Guendouzi, Nicolo Rovella, Gustav Isaksen, Boulaye Dia, Mattia Zaccagni, Valentin Castellanos.

Empoli (confirmed lineup): Devis Vasquez, Saba Goglichidze, Ardian Ismajli, Mattia Viti, Emmanuel Quartsin Gyasi, Tino Anjorin, Alberto Grassi, Jacopo Fazzini, Giuseppe Pezzella, Sebastiano Esposito, Ola Solbakken.

Empoli haven't lost any match this season and they will be facing the Lazio for their seventh match, the both teams have equal points, this alone show that this march will be tough because who win today takes the lead,

A renowned team of Serie A is Lazio. However, this team is not in a good rhythm this season. Lazio finished second in the table in the 2022–23 season. But Lazio's performance this season is poor. Lazio in particular are lagging behind due to their poor defence. Lazio failed to score points due to poor defense in most of the matches.

Empoli, on the other hand, have been in very good form this season. Especially Empoli's defense is very strong this season. Empoli's overall performance is very stable. This team's defense is strong, but their attacking performance is relatively weak. However, Empoli are unbeaten so far this season. Empoli's chances of defeat in today's match are very low. I expect Empoli to win. However, the match is also likely to be a draw.

Empoli took the lead with Esposito's goal just 9 minutes into the match. In the 20th minute, Empoli managed one shot and scored one goal. Empoli's defense is already very strong. And since Empoli took a 1-0 lead, it will be more difficult for Lazio's players to score.

[SatoPrincess]

Since Antonio Conte took over as the head coach of Napoli, apart from the bad form that they showed in their first few matches, they haven't looked back in the kind of improvement they have made under his leadership, he is already a proven winner, so he knows perfectly well how to build a title winning team,  though I am not that convince on their abilities yet, because they haven't met the bigger boys yet, teams like inter Milan, Juventus and even AC Milan. So I believe that when they have faced off with this top teams that I made mentioned,  that's when we can classify them as a real title contender.
Then as for Como, they actually put in a good fight tho, just that Napoli was just superior, on another day,  I believe that they might got a draw.

Antonio Conte is an experienced coach that we know already. He has been in charge of teams even in the Premier League and made impressive stats. Conte is a winner and knows how to manage big players also. I believe Antonio Conte will do well with Napoli even though he might be facing a rough start, they should give him time. I’m confident that Conte will make things happen even against the big teams in the league.

[dezoel]

Since Antonio Conte took over as the head coach of Napoli, apart from the bad form that they showed in their first few matches, they haven't looked back in the kind of improvement they have made under his leadership, he is already a proven winner, so he knows perfectly well how to build a title winning team,  though I am not that convince on their abilities yet, because they haven't met the bigger boys yet, teams like inter Milan, Juventus and even AC Milan. So I believe that when they have faced off with this top teams that I made mentioned,  that's when we can classify them as a real title contender.
Then as for Como, they actually put in a good fight tho, just that Napoli was just superior, on another day,  I believe that they might got a draw.

Antonio Conte is an experienced coach that we know already. He has been in charge of teams even in the Premier League and made impressive stats. Conte is a winner and knows how to manage big players also. I believe Antonio Conte will do well with Napoli even though he might be facing a rough start, they should give him time. I’m confident that Conte will make things happen even against the big teams in the league.

Situation is currently very interesting at the top with Napoli is leading the league table by just 2 points from the defending champions Inter Milan as today Juventus held at home by Cagliari which bring them to third spot, but we have to praise Antonio Conte as he is doing impressive job with problem hit Napoli back into their best.

We are having the best trio of Conte Lukaku and Kvaratskhelia their current performance and quality is giving them good reward of their hard work after 7 rounds things are looking pretty wired because we are having many teams are fail to perform as expected, but we all know about Serie A nature which is wired and unpredictable we can have the good number of changes which can bring surprises as well, but Napoli is surely back into their best after having Antonio Conte back as coach for this season.

[junder]

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

The many opportunities that Juventus got in this match were not enough to bring them victory. Only in the 15th minute of the first half did La Vecchia Signora manage to score a goal through a penalty from Dusan Vlahovic after that and so on until the second half there were no additional goals and the narrow advantage was equalized by Cagliari, the final score was 1-1.
In my opinion, Juve's performance was not bad, it's just that Cagliari showed a good defense so that Motta's team was unable to redeem it.
This draw puts Juventus in 3rd place in the standings with 13 points and if Milan gets a positive result when visiting Fiorentina's headquarters today their position will be shifted.

[doomloop]

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

After 7 rounds we are having 3 wins and 4 draws, and they concede their first goal in this game against Cagliari which is surely giving all how things are going now they are at the third spot their performance is surely far away for best in today game I was expecting some good and aggressive approach from them, but things were completely out of the touch.

Dušan Vlahović doing good, but we have no support for him which can give them good results in today game we have 7 shots on target but still just one goal which need to be improved because now in coming weeks things could be more competitive and tense they needed to be at his best if they want to keep things at the top level in Serie A.

[Jossque]

Atalanta showered out-of-form Genoa with goals.Retegui scored a hattrick as Atalanta defeated their opponents 5-1 at home to secure a comfortable win.
One of the most important matches of the week was definitely the Inter-Torino clash.Inter were in complete control after Maripan left his team 10 men in the early minutes.Inter managed to close the first half 2-1 ahead with Thuram's goal. In the 60th minute, Thuram scored his and his team's 3rd goal to give his team a comfortable lead.Towards the end of the game, Torino made it 3-2 from a penalty, but Inter won the match.

[xzone]

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

What do you think about Douglas Luiz? I think he will be chosen as the most disliked player by the fans this year. It has been said that he is not very useful for the team, on the contrary, he is very harmful
He came on as a late player in this match, it seems there is no need to talk about how he played.
I think Juventus should start Kenan Yıldız in the first 11. This young talent could be a good alternative for the team

[Slow death]

It seems that we will not be champions this season. Honestly, I cannot understand the management of Juventus. The current coach of Juventus is looking like the old coach of Juventus. He is doing very well in defense, he has only conceded 1 goal in 7 games. That is incredible. But he is not doing well in winning games. He does not have a consistent attack. Most games end in a draw and without a goal.

Juventus 0 - 0 Roma (draw and no goal)

Empoli 0 - 0 Juventus (again, draw and no goal)

Juventus 0 - 0 Napoli (again, draw and no goal)

Juventus 1 - 1 Cagliari ( again draw )

The Juventus coach should buy at least 2 players who are excellent in attack in the next transfer window, because the way things are, Juventus will hardly be able to be champion. I don't know why the Juventus board didn't hire a coach who has more of an attacking focus than a defensive focus.

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

After 7 rounds we are having 3 wins and 4 draws, and they concede their first goal in this game against Cagliari which is surely giving all how things are going now they are at the third spot their performance is surely far away for best in today game I was expecting some good and aggressive approach from them, but things were completely out of the touch.

Dušan Vlahović doing good, but we have no support for him which can give them good results in today game we have 7 shots on target but still just one goal which need to be improved because now in coming weeks things could be more competitive and tense they needed to be at his best if they want to keep things at the top level in Serie A.

The question we have to ask ourselves is: is Juventus fighting for the title or is it fighting to finish in one of the positions that will qualify for the European Champions League? because in my opinion it seems that Juventus is fighting to finish in one of the positions for access to the European Champions League and not for the title

[TelolettOm]

A renowned team of Serie A is Lazio. However, this team is not in a good rhythm this season. Lazio finished second in the table in the 2022–23 season. But Lazio's performance this season is poor. Lazio in particular are lagging behind due to their poor defence. Lazio failed to score points due to poor defense in most of the matches.

Yes, last season, Lazio could only finish in 7th position, so the club could only enter the UEFA Europa League. However, their performance in the league in 2 matches was very good, even Lazio led the temporary Europa League standings.

And in Serie A, their performance is also getting better. This time, they also managed to beat Empoli with a score of 2. Although initially Lazio was 1 goal behind, they managed to catch up and the second goal from Pedro made the victory.


Source: Lazio 2-1 Empoli

[Velvet78]

Today Juventus fans must be really sad to lose points against Cagliari home.    They kept the score at 1-0 so long and Cagliari didn't give up which brought the equalizer in the last minutes. Juventus had very limited time to answer so here we are. The problem started to be clear once again for them. Scoring productivity is once again not good enough...

If you look at their last 5 games carefully, you will see 3 draws with 0-0 scores. They are again suffering the same problem while being solid in defense. I hope Motta can figure a way out otherwise it might be really painful.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Atalanta appears today again against Genoa after winning their last match 3- 0 against shakhtar for their second champion league matches after draw against arsenal, Atalanta appear fit to win this match against Genoa because their performance is far ahead of Genoa in their last five games, Atalanta won two games, draw two and lost one while Genoa couldn't win any but secured two draw and lost three games both home and away.

Despite that Genoa played at home in their last match against Juventus, their performance was very poor and if they play same way in the match today, there's no way they will even score one goal.  I don't have a single doubt that Atalanta is going to win the match.

But it must be admitted that Atalanta did give a very good game, and Atalanta is not a team that can be underestimated, they are much better than Genoa even when doing away matches, so for a class of teams like Genoa it will be very difficult for them even though playing at home.

They must have very high improvement to continue to be able to compete with teams like Atalanta, they played quite badly, I also saw that, but still quite single in this match, they can continue to find weak points and attacks that Atalanta cannot stop, their speed needs to be considered to be able to penetrate the Atalanta defense.

Football is a game of luck but would really take lots of luck for Genoa to run over Atalanta. I actually knew that Atalanta can not be defeated by Genoa, based on my own predictions, I even though that they can not be able able to score a single goal but they tried.

[Lannakosa]

The many opportunities that Juventus got in this match were not enough to bring them victory. Only in the 15th minute of the first half did La Vecchia Signora manage to score a goal through a penalty from Dusan Vlahovic after that and so on until the second half there were no additional goals and the narrow advantage was equalized by Cagliari, the final score was 1-1.
In my opinion, Juve's performance was not bad, it's just that Cagliari showed a good defense so that Motta's team was unable to redeem it.
This draw puts Juventus in 3rd place in the standings with 13 points and if Milan gets a positive result when visiting Fiorentina's headquarters today their position will be shifted.

Another draw for Juventus, they conceded their first goal this season and that goal was enough to take the win. Too many draws, they have drawn four times out of 7 matches, it is strange that their attack plays so inconsistently, good matches are followed by very poor attacking play. Inter took advantage of this and have already overtaken Juventus, and Milan can take advantage of this if they can beat Fiorentina, but I think it will be difficult because Fiorentina have not lost at home for a long time.

[MarjorieZimmermanGinger]

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

The dominance of Juventus in the match was indeed quite extraordinary even though they lost one player due to getting a red card. But unfortunately the ball possession at 80% does not open the way for Juventus to get three points. Cagliari did not have the best ability when facing Juventus because they lost confidence, it should be when Juventus lost one player made them much more free to build attacks.

The draw benefits Cagliari but for Juventus it is not so satisfying because they lost three points to catch up with Napoli and even the draw made Inter Milan occupy second place in the standings because they won the match when they faced Torino.

[Palakka]

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

Today match will be the last match for Juventus and the rest of the Serie A teams because we will be going into a two-week international break, against Cagliari, Juventus managed to dominate possession but they could not do much more to win than just a penalty goal from Vlahovic, they created many chances in the game but the performance from Scuffet was outstanding in keeping the Cagliari goal from conceding in the match, I see that actually Juventus game is quite good but the lack of creativity in the front line seems to be their problem at the moment, the red card obtained by Conceicao is questionable because there is no contact that occurs on the legs and also there is no visible pressure on the shoulders that causes someone to fall except diving, we can see if  in the last few matches of Serie A this season it can be seen that many referee decisions are quite controversial and often detrimental to a team and Serie A authorities should review the performance of their referees in matches if they don't want to be accused of bad or corruption from many parties.

[Docnaster]

Almost 80% of ball possession for Juventus but they have not managed to won the game versus Cagliari.
Vlahovic scored the 1st goal, now 5th goal in the seria A for this year, but they tied the game in the end with a penalty.

Conceciao got a red card for double yellow card for simulation according to the referee but he has been touched so it is very sus.

It's one thing to dominate a game but totally a different thing to win at the end. Juventus like you rightly said was undoubtedly the dominant team in their Italian Serie A game against Cagliari this afternoon but they failed to maximize their opportunities in the game which was why they couldn't win at the end despite leading the game till the 88th minute. Răzvan Marin's strike in the dying minutes of the game came as a huge blow for Juventus but F. Conceição red card a minute later limited their chances of getting a late winner. Cagliari will be very happy with the result because it's actually not easy to play against the Old Ladies at their home ground and not get beaten.

[hahay]

Today Juventus fans must be really sad to lose points against Cagliari home.    They kept the score at 1-0 so long and Cagliari didn't give up which brought the equalizer in the last minutes. Juventus had very limited time to answer so here we are. The problem started to be clear once again for them. Scoring productivity is once again not good enough...

If you look at their last 5 games carefully, you will see 3 draws with 0-0 scores. They are again suffering the same problem while being solid in defense. I hope Motta can figure a way out otherwise it might be really painful.

Getting victory at the start of the season by winning with a score of 3-0 in the first two matches, I think Juventus will be able to be consistent with these good results with high productivity in making goals. It's true about the 0-0 result you said, because after two wins at the beginning of the  season with a score of 3-0 but for the next three Juventus matches that Juventus only got a 0-0 draw and that's pretty bad, indeed. But in fact,  Juventus won again with a score of 3-0 against Genoa and I think Juventus will be back in a good trend, and playing at home against Cagliari of course Juventus are very favored to win but anyway, the result is again getting a 1-1 draw and of course it is a disappointing one because I sure many bettors also lost in this match.